Forum:Suggestions for small tools to add to Galaxy

Question

[Devon Ryan]

I'd like to solicit suggestions/requests for (ideally small and relatively easy to compile) programs that currently aren't in the Galaxy Toolshed but might be useful if added. Some local folks are going to have a "Galaxy Developer Day" in a couple weeks, with the goal to have a bunch of developers/bioinformaticians get familiar with integrating tools into Galaxy. So if you're at least vaguely familiar with what's available in Galaxy and can think of a nice thing that should be added then please post it as an answer.

All reasonable suggestions will receive up votes!

Answer 1

[rasche.eric]

http://genometools.org they have a nice suite of tools for working with GFF3. I'd meant to get around to them (hence them being on the IUC's TODO list), but hadn't yet.

[Devon Ryan]

Thanks, I'll add that to the suggestions.

[martenson]

The IUC TODO list that Eric linked is also a nice resource of tools with need of wrapping.

[Devon Ryan]

Agreed, I probably should have mentioned that we're doing this with Björn Grüning, who's also one of the IUC folks.

Answer 2

[Brian Bushnell]

I suggest... cough BBDuk.

[Devon Ryan]

I'll suggest that. I was actually thinking about many of the BBMap tools. Are many/any in Galaxy already? If not, I'd just add everything in there to the list as well.

[Brian Bushnell]

Nope, none are in Galaxy currently.

[manekineko]

Are there any updates for BBmap, BBDuk, BBMerge, Reformat etc in Galaxy Tool Shed, I will love to see them available :)

Answer 3

[martenson]

If you look in the 'Tool Requests' list on our Trello board (https://trello.com/b/75c1kASa/galaxy-development) you can find other tool ideas to consider.